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 Buy Off (To).Buy Over (To). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Buy Out (To).
 
To redeem or ransom.   1
       
“Not being able to buy out his life … .
Dies ere the weary sun set.”
       
Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors, i. 2.
 


 Buy Off (To).Buy Over (To). 

 
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